Comprehensive Legislation Of Social Media Privacy

Privacy has become a prominent topic in academic and social debate throughout the country. In “Term of Service” by Jacob Silverman, Silverman argues that American citizens today are unaware that their private information is often shown and are no longer safe from the public eye. After all, the integration of social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter has made it impossible to keep anything private. Sharing life events on social media has become the new social norm in the United States. However, this new trend has left the online community with a false sense of security, leaving them venerable against data mining, profiling, and unknown surveillance issues by third party miners across the country. With no end to this threat, how can causal social media users defend themselves without any assistants? The federal government should adopt stronger privacy laws like they have in Europe. They should come up with a digital bill of reforms to help better protect the online community, better inform the public about data mining threats, and companies should get government approval for any data retrieval before they are used for financial gains.

It is shown, that one of the most prominent sources that prove a danger toward privacy, is through social media, specifically Facebook. This site alone

In his essay, “Get Over It,” Jeff Jarvis argues that “ . . . our supposed privacy crisis, . . . could result in our missing many of the opportunities the net affords to connect with each other and with information” (430). On the other hand, Andrew Keen, in “Sharing is a Trap,” states that “. . . this increasingly ubiquitous social network . . . is invading the 'sacred precincts' of private and domestic life” (426). With all the posting, tweeting, and blogging privet lives have become open to the public. SMS, emails and even calls are being traced, recorded and reviewed every day, you are not safe on the internet. Keen’s argument regarding social media is valid in regard to the transformative nature of the Internet, privacy and “publicness.”

Facebook. Instagram. Whatsapp. All which are categorised as social media, which we are all familiar with. Social media has been ingrained into our lives; we use them every day. Without social media, we would be lost for many reasons: It has encompassed both our personal and professional life, as its purposes ranges from using it for work purposes to simply having a chat. However, have we ever stopped and wondered at what cost? Little do we know that social media can be used as a tool to scrutinize our personal lives. We have been lied to about having freedom on social media, the Government has the ability to look at every single thing we are doing on it. This is a purely disgusting act, people deserve their privacy, and taking that away from them is – in the kindest manner- absolutely horrendous.

There is a rising dominance of social media sites that allows users lives to become increasingly transparent. With full information about ones activities available for everyone to see, it blurs the line between personal and impersonal information. Personal information like where you were, and your private life information are now things that everyone feels free to share, and by doing so dismantling the boundaries of personal information.

Privacy is a topic that has impacted this new generation more so than others, and more than likely will continue to do so. It has been the source to much controversy and issues in the past decade. Additionally, it seems like privacy is only becoming more of a hazard rather than a blessing to users of social media and modalities of communication. Therefore, underscoring this topic and examining its effects, will possibly lead to an understanding of the rise and potentiality of this sensitive subject. Moreover, in some form or another, people have stumbled across this topic and that is why it is crucial that it is addressed, so that people can have an understanding of the problem.

This essay will discuss the way social networking sites affect the nature and limits of privacy. There are various social networking websites e.g. Facebook, MySpace, Youtube, Twitter, Google Buzz, and many others with various privacy settings and in the past several years billions of people have joined these social networking sites.

In the social networking arena, users voluntarily divulge personal information online that, prior to the digital age, would have been considered private and restricted. Without careful and fierce examination of information prior to submitting it online, users unwittingly and certainly unwillingly subject themselves to threat of privacy intrusion.

This paper describes how over time the Internet has changed the meaning of privacy. This paper explores how various social media websites along with the new generation have influenced how much we value our privacy. Although each social media website has its own outlook on human privacy, they all ultimately deem it as the most valued part of the website. The new generation uses Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat, etc. as ways to communicate and share their memories with others, while not understanding the risk it poses. This paper shows how the internet has transformed the meaning of privacy into a matter more serious because the information being “posted” has so much more value than it did in the past. Overall you will see how the feeling of needing privacy has been depleted, but also how the security of privacy has increased.

The United States is a culture of sharing. People share their personal lives on almost every aspects with social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The idea of free online services have attract people’s natural instinct to indulge themselves into these free services. What they do not know is how these “free-services” ask in return. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have revolutionized how people connect with one another and the way people retrieve resources, which also allows massive private information accessible to organizations. In the article called “Twitter’s Lucrative Data Mining Business” published in The Wall Street Journal, Elizabeth Dwoskin talks about Twitter’s disclosure that its company has “$47.5 million came from selling off its data to a fast-growing group of companies that analyze the data for insights into news events and trends” (Dwoskin). Although the internet has opened doors to many business opportunities and innovations, it has invaded social media users’ private information and often exposes them to unauthorized organizations such Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat for monetary gain. Legal standing has make it possible for these companies to appropriately set user’s policies regarding the disclosure of user’s privacy, but people often disregard on how companies are distributing their information that may expose their privacy to unauthorized organizations.

In January 2017, Pew Research Center’s Social Media Fact Sheet, reported that 69% of all Americans use some form of social media. In fact, today, 1.32 billion people will make a status on Facebook and over five hundred million photos will be posted on Instagram. Social media allows for users across the world to connect with long-lost friends or family members, increase their business clientele and revenue, be entertained by others, share photos and videos with the world, etc. all within a blink of an eye. Although social media is one of the greatest innovations of all time, it comes with a price, it affects your privacy, health & personal relationships.

Social media are extremely popular in today's world. Their popularity is extended to the majority of countries all around the world. They have various functions, which means people can use these web resources or for different reasons. However, social media creates isolation, engaging people into artificial reality, depriving them of real social skills, and making them live in an illusive world, so the use of different form of social media should be controlled for all ages.

In the article ‘The Right to Privacy is Not a Right to Facebook’, Castro (2010, p.1) suggests that there is a growing concern in the content of the social media companies' privacy policy as these companies have been observed to be using their users' private data to provide suggestion products and services to their consumers. While this allows companies such as Facebook and Google to tailor their services to their consumers' preference and need better, Privacy Fundamentalists argue that such targeted marketing has already violated users' privacy rights by exposing private data. In the view of whether companies should be allowed to access the data, the author suggests that it is purely up to FTC to decide whether to conduct legal action in checking

Social media is quickly evolving in front of our eyes and it is almost impossible to reject and hide from this new form of media. Not only is it an important part of socialization within peer groups but now it is used to market and motivate people to become a part of a larger community. It is undeniably changing the way one communicates and how one finds and shares information. Most websites offer communication through the use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and many various blog formats. With new apps on smartphones and photography and video made digital, media can be created, edited and shared quickly and once it is in this new digital cloud it is not yours anymore. Through these new advances in technology one can share things

The main source of information, alongside legislature, that the American Judicial System uses in determining a judgment in a case is previously determined court cases that have relevance in the topic at hand. A great way to discover the legal realm of Social Media is to look at past judgments and measure them to the laws that currently exist. This measurement will give us an understanding of where Social Media stands in terms of legality. The following section will cover precedent cases that deal with the topic of Social Media and if it is protected by the First Amendment.